Average returns in the six major fund groups have topped 21% a year since the worst of the financial crisis. Repost of Article The Great Mutual Fund Comeback by Janet Levaux March 08, 2015 from think advisor.com Sometimes, it’s worth reliving a bit of painful history. On March...
Article repost and edited from original, Why Risk Management Isn’t Like Car Shopping | ThinkAdvisor. https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2015/02/26/why-risk-management-isnt-like-car-shopping [blockquote text='quant risk management has gone mainstream.' text_color='' width='' line_height='undefined' background_color='' border_color='' show_quote_icon='yes' quote_icon_color=''] From risk systems for advisors to algorithms used by firms like Wealthfront, quant risk management has gone...
Cash has become another four-letter word for some investors. Sure, it doesn’t earn anything – slightly less than the yield on high-quality, short-term debt – but keeping some immediate liquidity has real-world advantages. (See monthly index returns table below.) The most pragmatic reason one might need...